Models

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash

Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash from Doubao on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier reasoning model, optimized for complex engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It features strong multimodal capabilities, improved resistance to prompt injection, and a new Verbosity parameter to control token efficiency. With advanced tool use, extended context, and multi-agent support, Opus 4.5 excels in autonomous research, debugging, planning, and spreadsheet/browser operations.

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
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Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash
Doubao · text, image, video → text

Doubao-Seed-1.6-flash is an extremely fast multimodal deep thinking model, with TPOT requiring only 10ms. It supports both text and visual understanding, with its text comprehension skills surpassing the previous generation lite model and its visual understanding on par with competitor's pro series models. It supports a 256k context window and an output length of up to 16k tokens.

Input$0.044 /M
Output$0.44 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Opus 4.8
Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash
Input /M
$5
$0.044
Output /M
$25
$0.44
Cache read /M
$0.5
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Context length
1,000,000
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Max output
128,000
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Time to First Token
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Throughput
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Modalities
textimagepdf
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
May 28, 2026
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash
$9.24 /mo
Claude Opus 4.8
$675 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.8, Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash?

Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash: $0.44/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash accepts text, image and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.8 and Doubao Seed 1.6 Flash with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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